Sample card



Spt 22, 1931. s. E. BENDER 1,824,460

SAMPLHCARD Filed Oct. 29, 1930 INVENTOR {a I @gineyfifieader ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 22, 1931 STATES PATENT OFFICE synnnY E. BEIQ'DER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A ssIGNo R To nnnzn-rnnrncrxon SAMPLE can-n 00., INQ, or new Yonx, N. Y., A. CORPORATION or NEW ORK SAMPLE CARD Application filed October 29,1930. Serial No. 491,910.

This invention'relates to an improved form of sample card books in general, and particularly to a color card book for textile material, as for instance yarn, etc.

One of the objects of my invention is the.

process of producing color card samples of yarn for use in connectionwith my sample book.

Another object of my invention resides in the provision of a specific color sample made of yarn andadapted to facilitate more readily judging of the future coloring and appearance of goods to be dyed.

Another object of my invention is the provision and arrangement of individual sam'- ple carrier cards, color sample supports and color samples and their attachment and union with one another. v

A further object of this invention is the provision of a sample card book composed of any desired number of individual sections adapted for receiving and removably holding individual sample'carrier cards and so constructed as to facilitate the accommodation of any number of cards or samples andcapable of folding up to a compact unit in the form of a book in the direction from the end sections towards the center of the book. 1 p

A still further object of my invention resides in the construction of my sample book, which is composed of individual sections of uniform size connected with one another by flexible joints, whichlatter increase in width in the direction from both ends towards-the center, thereby facilitating the folding of the sections to abool: form; insuch a way as to cause theend sections to fold against the second or adjacent sections with their inner surfaces facing one another, the thirdsections folding with their inner faces against the back surface of the end sections, the fourth sections folding with. their inner surfaces against the back surface of the second sections, the fifth sections folding with their provided with a sample.

inner surfaces against the back surfaces of the third. sections, etc. V

Still another object ofmy invention is the'provision in connection with each section of a backing member attached to the inner', surface of the base member of each section and between the reinforcing membersthereof, and provided with'means for facilitating the attachment-theretov and removal therefrom of individual sample carriers of my particular construction. The foregoing and still further objects of my inventionwill become more fully apparent from the following description and'the accompanying drawings, forming a part of my disclosure, but by no means intended to limit me to the actual constructionshown, and in which I 1 Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of an open sample card book, composed Ora plurality of sectionswith their inner or. sample attaching surfaces exposed.

Fig. 2 is an end or-bottom view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates an end view of a book in folded form and composed of an upper three section portion and a lower four section portion. a Fig;4 illustrates an end view of one of the book sections.

Fig. 5 illustrates a sample support with its rear face exposed and showingthe attachment of the sample. I Fig. 6 is a plan view of a preferred form of my sample carrier, and Fig. 7 isja plan view of a sample-carrier card to which isattached a sample support Fig. 8 illustrates a partial plan view of a modified form of a book section. I

Fig. 9 is a plan view of a modified form of a sample carrier card provided "with a sample support and sample of my construction, and

Fig. is a plan View of a-number of sample supports illustrating the attachment ber betweenthe two reinforcing members is a backing strip 12 provided with a plurality of slots 13, arranged in pairs, which slots serve for receiving individual color sample carrier cards 14. The latter consist of a slip or tab of stiff paper or similar material having reduced ends 15 adapted to register with. and be inserted'nto slots 13. The width 0 the slip portion between the reduced ends prevents the displacement of thecards;

Attached to each card is a sample support 16'which is shorter in length than the card.

and to which is attached at its front face a sample of colored yarn 17. The latter consists of a bundle of parallel yarn threads, longer than the sample support, its ends, in the form of tossels extending symmetrically beyond the edges of the support. The extending yarn ends are secured to the support by a single thread 18 looped around them and swung back and crossed at the rear face of the support to which face the attaching thread is secured either by glue or in any other practical manner.

The rear face of the sample support is then symmetrically attached to the carrier card, as clearly seen in Fig. 7 whereby thread 18 is obscured from view with the exception of the two loops 19 engaging the ends of the yarn sample which are visible. q

The sample itself has not onlyan attrac; tive appearance in itself, but facilitates more readily the judging of the future appearance of yarn to be colored according to the sample which fact alone becomes helpful to the one ordering the coloring in that he can observe not only the color effect of the yarn bunched together between the loops 19, but may visualize the effect in spread yarn or single yarn of the ends extending beyond the loops.

The achievement of the foregoing advan tages forms part of the objects of my invention, as does the manner or process of accomplishing them. I V

Referringto Fig. 10 it will be seen that a row of sample supports 16 are uniformly spaced from one anotherand that a continuous piece of yarn is placed centrally and lengthwise over them. Then the attaching threads are looped about the yarnportions at the shorter edges of the sample supportsso that just the loops 19 remain visible, while scribed above.

My sample card book may be composed of any number of sections. In Figs. 1 and 2 a portion of a book is shown consisting of four section portions, while in Fig. 3 a folded-up book of seven sections is illustrated in a semidiagrammatical manner. The sections are connected by flexible oints 22, lncreaslng in width from the end sect-1ons mwards.

Taking the illustration in Fig. 3 as a typical example, the upper book portion 23 consists of three sections, while the lower book portion 24 comprises four sections. The end sections of the respective book portions are designated at I and I, the second sections II and II, the third sections III and III and the fourth section of the lower book portion IV. From this figure it will be also observed how the flexible joints between the sections are arranged as to their widths and in which manner the sections of each book portion are folded.

The joints between sections I and II and I and II are designated at 25 and 25, respectively, They are the narrowest joints. The joints between sections II and III and II and II are marked 26 and 26, respectively, and are wider so as to accommodate three folded-up sections; the joint 27 between sections III and IV is still wider to accommodate four folded-up sections, while the oint 28 between sections III andIV is widest, as it has to accommodate seven folded-up sections. v

The first two sections of each book portion bear with their inner faces against each other and their reinforcing members abut with the extending faces. Sections III and III rest with their reinforcing members against the backs of. sections I and I, respectively, and section IV bears with its reinforcing member against the back of section II. Such arrangement provides not only for end reinforcements'of each section singly, but for the reinforcement of the book sides when in folded condition, and incidentally the reinforcing members form'spacers between the folded-up sections.

In Fig. 7 an individual sample carrier card is illustrated equipped with a sample support provided with a color designation of the sample. It sometimes becomes advantageous to show such color designation or number in a more promlnent way as is indicated in the modified structure illustrated in Flgs. 8 and 9. Here again a portion of a book section 29 is shown consisting of a base member 30, at the longer sides of which are provided reinforcing members 31, between which is at; tached to the base member a backing 32. The latter is provided with card. receivingslots 33, arranged in pairs, and adjacent to each pair of slots an aperture 34 is cut out.

The carrier card 35 in this modification is very similar to that described previously. One of its reduced ends 36, however, is elongated and provided with an identification i lhile I have illustrated and described only one of the many possible modified forms my invention is capable of assuming, be it understood that other modifications and improvements may be incorporated therein without departing from the broad scope of my idea and I therefore reserve for myself the right to make such changes and improvements as may become advisable during the commercialization of my device Within the broadest interpretation of the annexed claims:

I claim:

1. A color card sample, comprising in combination a carrier in the form of tab, a yarn sample support representing another tab, but shorter than the first mentioned tab secured with its lower face to the upper face of said carrier, a yarn sample attached to and extending with its ends beyond the edges of said support, and means for securing the extending ends of said yarn sample to the latter in the manner indicated.

2. A color sample adapted to be removably secured to a sample color card or book, comprising in combination, a carrier member in the form of a tab having reduced ends, a yarn sample support secured to said member and being'shorter than the latter, a yarn sample attached to said support and extending with its ends beyond the edges of the latter, but not beyond the reduced ends of said carrier member, andsample securing means looped about the extending ends of said yarn sample and secured to the back of said support.

3. A color sample adapted to be removably secured to sample color cards or books, comprising in combination, a carrier'member in the formof a tab having reduced ends, the latter adapted to serve as movement limiting and engaging means for the tab when secured to such sample color cards or books, a yarn samplecarrier secured with its back to said carrier member and forming another tab, but

shorter in length than said carrier member,

a yarn sample attached'to said support and being of greaterlength than thelatter, but: being'shorte'r than the portion of the carrier member disposed between the latters reduced ends, said sample extending with its ends evenly beyond the edges of the support, its center portion adhering uniformly to the exposed face of said support, and binding means looped about and engaging the sample at the edges of said support and secured to the back thereof.

4. A color sample adapted to be removably associated with sample color cards or books, comprising in combination, aicarrier member inthe form of a tab having reduced ends, the latter adapted to engage sample holding provisions arranged with such cards or books, and to limit its movement when thus engaged, a yarn sample carrier secured with its back face to said carrier member and forming another tab shorter ihlength than said mem her, a yarnsample attached to said support and comprising a bundle of parallely arranged threads, the ends of which form tossels which extend beyond the edges of said support, while its middle portion is uniformly arranged over the front face of the support, an attaching thread looped about the yarn sample at the intersections between its middle and end portions, thereby drawing the looped-over points of the yarn together, the portions of the attaching thread not in engagement with the yarn sample secured to the attached back face of said sample support.

5. A color sample adapted to be removably associated with sample color cards or books, comprising in combination, a carrier memher in the form of a tab having reduced ends, one of which ends being longer than the other and adapted for receiving identification markings, both reduced ends designed for engaging sample holding provisions arranged with such cards or books and for limiting the movement of the sample while thus engaged, the longer reduced end adapted to register with an opening or window for exposing the markings provided upon that tab end, a yarn sample carrier secured with its back face to said carrier member and forming another tab shorter in length than said member,a yarn sample attached to said support and comprising a bundle of parallely arranged threads, the ends of which form tossels which extend beyond the edges of said support, while its middle portion is uniformly arranged over the front face of the support, an attaching thread looped about the yarn sample at the intersections between its middle and end portions, thereby drawing the looped-over points of the yarn together,

the portiens of the attaching thread not in engagement with the yarn sample secured to the attached back face of said sample support.

In testlmony whereof I herewith aflix my signature.

' SYDNEY E. BENDER. 

